There are so many good things to pull out of this fascinating article about wine salesman Jon Rimmerman in the New York Times article Drunk with Power.

Rimmerman is the founder of Garagiste and the author of one of the most popular email newsletters on wine.

His meandering missives are part salesmanship in print, part trivia junk-drawer on topics like vintage 1960s tube amplifiers or 100k bike rides in the high-hills of France (after two bottles of Beaujolais).

His fans call his daily emails “crack.”

But it’s his method for crafting a mission statement (or mantra) that deserves particular attention: [Read more...]

Buildings  and Mountains by Parallelish

Long ago I used to think that I was an entrepreneur. I thought it was enough to quit your job and work for yourself to call yourself an entrepreneur. That illusion was destroyed when I ran into some real entrepreneurs. [Read more...]

Originally posted at Overcome Everything last year.

Okay, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that if you’re reading this, you are probably an entrepreneur–or want to be one.

No surprise there.

But let me go even further out on that limb and say you’re probably not sure if you’re a good entrepreneur…

…or how to actually even get your business off the ground in the first place. [Read more...]